I need an automated bill paying method, NOT automatic deductions from checking account.

I do all my banking with US Bank, via their electronic bill pay, you can link them to many creditors, so that in addition to getting an ebill from the creditor/company, US Bank will also send me an alert that I have a pending Ebill. When I open the US Bank mobile app or website, and go to Pay Bills, it will show me ebills I have pending.

There are other banks that do this also.

 

I always use the autopay option provided by the seller whether it is with a credit card or ACH. Frankly it doesn’t matter to me whether it’s a credit card or ACH. I always check my bank statements every 1-2 months. Any fraud is refundable by the bank, but must be reported within 3 months and the amount protected has a limit of just a little over 100k. All banks are different. So you want to check with them. So far, I haven’t detected any “fraud.” I have, however, noticed annual or monthly payments that weren’t supposed to be active anymore. Most of them were my fault for not closing the account/subscription on time.

I remember over 10 years ago that I would have my bank mail out checks, but that was when autopay still wasn’t available everywhere. Now, it’s rare for a company to not offer some sort of autopay. It’s so easy to not have to worry about missing a payment (again!). All you have to do is make sure that your bank is always fully funded.

The main reason why I go over my bank statements is because I want to make sure I didn’t miss any business expenses that I need to send to my bookkeeper. I usually find a few that I missed.

 

Open a separate checking account for those bills and keep enough to cover them but nothing excessive.

 

send me all of your bills and your paychecks every month and i will manage them for you with a 10% commision based upon the total price of the bill

 

If auto pay options won't work set yourself a reminder.

 

I can't even remember the last time I paid anything other than a credit card bill. I've got accounts at 3 different banks and money gets transferred from the primary to the secondary and tertiary accounts and then the bills are automatically paid from there. Direct deposit, automated bill pay...money is hardly even a concept anymore.

 

I'm going to make an assumption here that your talking about personal finances. I think you're making things too complicated. Every bill can be paid online nowadays and you can have total control over the payments.

1) Cut up your credit cards
2) Set up auto-pay for every bill that is the same amount
3) Use the calendar on your smart phone. Enter the due date for recurring bills that aren't the same amount each month into your calendar on your smart phone and use the reminder feature so you get a notification, and pay those online every month. I check my calendar daily. I think most people do. Do the same for one time bills.

Actually I don't understand why you don't set up auto-pay for every monthly recurring bill? Even if it's a bill that is a different amount every month.

If you don't like auto-pay use option 3 to pay all your bills on-line.